Books Quotes

• "We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 700)
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• "Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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• "A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."
  By: Henry Brooke
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• "Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble."
  By: Ashleigh Brilliant
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• "What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past time. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me."
  By: John Bright
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• "The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "A book should be luminous, but not voluminous."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "But of what use will my book be when it is finished?"
  By: James Boswell
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• "Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues."
  By: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177)
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• "Without books God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian dark-ness."
  By: Thomas Bartholin
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• "He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter."
  By: Isaac Barrow
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• "The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which."
  By: Sir James Matthew Barrie
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• "Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares."
  By: Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening)
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• "The images of men's wits and .knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation."
  By: Francis Bacon
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